Adapted from Kalpatta Narayanan’s celebrated novel of the same name, this engrossing, elegiac drama starts with the sudden death of Sumithra, a village woman in her late thirties. As her body is laid out for friends and relatives to pay their respects, her short life is examined through their memories of her, and her actions, and we are left to ponder the meaning of life and how we spend our short time on Earth.